Profiles

In the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, Senate candidate Graham Platner might be the perfect soldier: The virile, earthy working man many male politicians wish they were, with the committed lefty beliefs many voters are now demanding. But here in Maine, he’ll need to win over some Trump voters—if he can even make it through the primary.

The frontman of the Drive-By Truckers says she leads one of the greatest live rock acts of all time. Mannequin Pussy’s singer compares her to “a goth Dolly Parton.” But as the hype builds, Wednesday singer-songwriter Karly Hartzman is determined not to become the next “prince of Brooklyn.” “Just being a little outside of the norm,” she says, “is such a beautiful weapon.”

He’s an arena-filling Nashville outsider who wrote a Black Lives Matter anthem and put a gay love story in a music video. Now, fresh off a pilgrimage to India, he's releasing his spiritual and artistic opus, Snipe Hunter. “If I’m trying to talk to another young Tyler out there, he needs to know he's not going to hell for thinking something else different.”

In Lena Dunham’s buzzy new Netflix series, the actor spins the love interest into something much more idiosyncratic—emotional baggage and all.

In a world-historical moment rife with villainy and loose scruples, James Gunn has staked his reboot of the DC Comics Universe on a Superman with core values, a sunny disposition, and a weakness for romance. Says Corenswet, who has to make it all work: “A role like Superman seems like something that everybody would want, and that’s not true.”

The Gilded Age actor is back as robber baron George Russell (affectionately known as “Railroad Daddy” to his fans). Ahead of the HBO period drama’s thrilling third season, we hung out with Spector on the Upper East Side to talk subversive masculinity, being a wife guy, and suddenly becoming famous in his 40s.

Since 1978, Brunello Cucinelli has sought to lead his luxury empire—and the town that became its heart—with benevolence. And with the industry bracing for tariffs and trade wars, protecting his self-made Umbrian paradise has never felt more vital.

Five years ago, she walked away from her record deal and bet on herself as an actress. Now she’s dropping a wild new visual album, Escape Room—and starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly anticipated One Battle After Another.

How eccentric French designer Jérôme Mage transformed his LA brand, Jacques Marie Mage, into the most coveted and cultish name in sunglasses—and created the go-to shades for the celebrity class.

With their fourth album, I Quit, Alana, Danielle, and Este Haim expunge negative feelings about shitty exes, bad dates, and a rock music community that refuses to acknowledge them. Now, as Alana puts it during a hang in the Valley, “it’s time to party.”

The 38-year-old comedian started his YouTube series The Adam Friedland Show mostly as a joke. But in the wake of an election that podcasters helped swing in Donald Trump’s favor, he’s fielding interview offers from politicians desperate to connect with disaffected young voters any way they can—even if it means getting trolled on camera by the former co-host of a podcast called Cum Town.

In making the zombie show’s most harrowing scene yet, Kaitlyn Dever’s life and work collided devastatingly. But in the end it helped her process the worst period of her life.

After shaking off the ghost of Don Draper by playing a parade of bad guys, goofball guest stars, and even Tom Cruise’s boss, the 53-year-old actor said yes to Your Friends & Neighbors, his first TV-series lead in a decade—and found out people still want to watch Jon Hamm play a morally complex rich guy with a secret.

A soulfully earnest singer whose folk-rock band stormed the charts in the age of grunge and irony, the Counting Crows frontman became both an overnight icon and an easy target—and throughout his band’s rise and fall, he kept quiet about his struggle with mental illness. At 60, he’s found some peace at last. Now what?

His new series about a closeted jock, has a hilarious ensemble cast—composed of Wally Baram, Mary Beth Barone, Rish Shah, and more—plus a coming-of-age story like you’ve never seen before. GQ went inside the Benny Drama universe as he makes the leap from your Instagram feed to your TV.

With his breakthrough performance in Thunderbolts* as the MCU’s newest all-powerful hero (and its creepiest new villain), the actor has fans and the film biz asking, “What about Bob?”